[PATCH] busybox: enable whois by default

Petr Štetiar ynezz at true.cz
Tue Nov 17 02:14:19 EST 2020


Josef Schlehofer <pepe.schlehofer at gmail.com> [2020-11-17 02:07:09]:

Hi,

> Whois can identify who owns a domain and how to get reach owner.  Providing
> this tool in OpenWrt someone does not need to use websites for everything.

I don't think, that this tool is essential enough to be shipped by default.
One can use whois on desktop or mobile phone for example. I think, that
packaging whois[1] shouldn't be that hard, then you've it one `opkg install`
away.

1. https://github.com/rfc1036/whois

Cheers,

Petr



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